Apr 15, 2002 - Sale 1931

Sale 1931 - Lot 16

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
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Elegant quarter-plate daguerreotype portrait of a beautiful young woman in a flowered dress holding a shawl and tall, ribboned bonnet; with an arch-topped mat and in a full leather case with Mayall's credit gilt-stamped on verso. Late 1840s
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J. E. Mayall began his career in Philadelphia where he ran a daguerreotype studio and lectured in chemistry. In 1846, he relocated to London where he opened the American Daguerreotype Institution. He quickly became known for his stunning portraits and he photographed many notables, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre among them.<